The course Virtual WBL for VET teachers
The course Virtual WBL for VET teachers is available open access in English, Portuguese, Estonian, Italian, Bulgarian, Greek and Polish, accessible by mobile, tablet, laptop, or personal computer, or a mixture of these, available in self-learning methodology and without any time restriction.
Handbook for VET teachers / trainers
Handbook for VET teachers/trainers on best use of the competencies acquired through the course vWBL course ‘Virtual WBL for VET teachers’
The vWBL Framework
Based on the results of an extended consultation of VET teachers and experts in Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Poland, the vWBL Framework has been created to define the project methodology.
The Guide for VET teachers to virtual WBL
The Guide for VET teachers to virtual WBL presents statements, statement, standards and recommendations to the virtual WBL, based on the consultation of experienced VET professionals in the European project countries Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Poland that was conducted at the start of the project.
The vWBL Guide is available in English, Portuguese, Estonian, Italian, Bulgarian, Greek and Polish.
News from E+
- New publication: The greening of higher education in the Western Balkans, neighbourhood East and South, and Central Asia regions
- New publication: Conference report on the Erasmus Mundus 20th anniversary conference “Beyond borders and boundaries”
- Info session: European Higher Education Area and National Academic Recognition Information Centres: Presentation and recording are now available!
- Online info session - Media 360: Presentation and recording are now available!
- School holidays for the 2024/2025 school year
- Organisation of the academic year in Europe – 2024/2025
- The autumn application round for DiscoverEU is now closed!
- 71 applications received for the 2024 Pilot Project Sport Supports – Emergency Sport actions for youth
vWBL News
- Inside this issue: FINAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE; PILOTING THE VWBL PRODUCTS; VWBL HANDBOOK FOR VET TEACHERS / TRAINERS; TRAINING EVENT IN NAPLES, ITALY; EVALUATION OF RESULTS
- The coordinator EPRALIMA organized the final project event by its school headquarters in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
- vWBL has been broadly disseminated through different channels and media
- The project results have been evaluated by VET teachers and experts as well as by VET students in the project countries
- The vWBL project team makes available as Open Data the findings of the surveys conducted in 2021 and the collected best practices
- The coordinator EPRALIMA organized the last project meeting by its school headquarters in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
- The vWBL project has successfully delivered pilot training for VET teachers and trainers in Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland
- Handbook for VET teachers/trainers on best use of the competencies acquired through the course vWBL course ‘Virtual WBL for VET teachers’
- The short‐term mutual training event 'Perspective strategies on virtual WBL' took place in Naples, Italy, in the period 3-6/5/2022
- The created multilingual vWBL online course has been piloted in Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland.
- Inside this issue: THE VWBL COURSE FOR VET, TRAINING EVENT IN CYPRUS, NEXT STEPS
- The partner University of Naples Federico II organized the fourth project meeting in Naples (Italy) by the Department of Political Science of the University, with the blended participation of all partners
- The course Virtual WBL for VET teachers is available open access in English, Portuguese, Estonian, Italian, Bulgarian, Greek and Polish
- The short‐term mutual training event 'Awareness and competences of VET teachers on WBL training' took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, in the period 15-18/11/2021
- Inside this issue: THE GUIDE FOR VET TEACHERS, THE VWBL FRAMEWORK, EVALUATION OF THE GUIDE BY VET EXPERTS, NEXT STEPS
- The vWBL course is designed to provide support to VET teachers's upskilling on the use of virtual WBL, including all aspects which are the key components and enabling factors of the vWBL framework.
- Based on the results of an extended consultation of VET teachers and experts in Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Poland, the vWBL Framework has been created to define the project methodology.
- Since March 2020, the partnership has been meeting online to keep the project moving forward.
- The Guide for VET teachers to virtual WBL presents statements, standards and criteria, defining aspects that will support VET teachers/trainers in the design of virtual Work-Based Learning and use of the proposed training. The vWBL Guide is available in English, Portuguese, Estonian, Italian, Greek, Bulgarian and Polish.
- Inside this issue: INTRODUCTION OF THE VWBL PROJECT, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO, NEXT STEPS
vWBL Open Data
At the end of the project, the vWBL project team makes available the findings of the surveys to which VET experts, teachers and trainers participated in 2021. These results are at disposal as Open Data that could be freely used by research communities and stakeholder
The vWBL final international conference
The coordinator EPRALIMA organized the final project event by its school headquarters in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal). The final international conference, organized by Epralima in November 2022 gave the opportunity to present all completed and validated project results to a broad audience of stakeholders and to collect all participants’ evaluation and suggestions for further uses of the vWBL results.
Promotion initiatives
vWBL has been broadly disseminated through different channels and media. Traditional and digital media have been used to impact stakeholders and specialists in all project countries, totally achieving a total audience of more than 11,000 people reached by the project during its implementation period.
Piloting the vWBL products
The vWBL project has successfully delivered pilot training to about 150 VET teachers/ trainers and students in Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland.
Evaluation of results
The project results have been evaluated by VET teachers and experts as well as by VET students in the project countries Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland. The respondants provided a very positive feedback, particularly on the future use of the proposed training.
vWBL branding
The WBL logo was conceived as if it were a precise and complex artifact, in which the small object "v" perfectly fits within the other element of the design "WBL", the latter standing for the more complex and comprehensive context of artifacts.
vWBL visual identity
Available formats of the vWBL logo
